There has never been a good band whose name starts with "The"

The Dead Kennedys

The Lou Thesz Press

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

The Soft Cell

The Pesh Mode

Thelonious Monk

The Olivia Tremor Control
The Avalanches
The Beach Boys
The Microphones
The Pixies
The Velvet Underground
The Moody Blues
The Mars Volta
The Mothers of Invention
The Flaming Lips
The Smiths
The Doors
The Magnetic Fields

>The Strokes

>band

thelonious and the monks

>The Lonely Island

It must suck being as wrong as you are right now.

The The

The Prince
The Sting
The David Bowie

I... literally can't think of a single one.
Congrats OP

The Crownhate Ruin

The Emerson, Lake and Palmer

The Doors

The Pink Floyd

The Knife

The Police

The Kinks

The loneliest monk